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kiwidude · 03-28-2011, 05:36 PM

I'm a minimal tag guy too. I can understand where Starson17 is coming from, there certainly are some "interesting" tags out there.

Now if every single book was consistently tagged with those "interesting" tags (be it a character name, a location, or whatever takes your fancy) then maybe I would be tempted into doing as dwanthny says of using a separate genre column and cutting loose.

However the OCD in me just detests the inconsistencies which would mean I could never use it to search. For instance say I wanted all books that were tagged "NZ" to indicate a NZ location. There could well be some books in my library which will have that tag. But I can guarantee that the majority will not. So I will be better off googling and then seeing if I have the books it finds. The same applies to any tag you don't set yourself, due to the lack of data scrubbing and control.

Let alone all the "Sci-fi, SciFi, SyFy, Science Fiction..." variations which do my head in.

But that's just me - you love 'em or hate 'em...

03-28-2011, 05:36 PM	#6
kiwidude Calibre Plugins Developer Posts: 4,636 Karma: 2162064 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kindle Oasis	I'm a minimal tag guy too. I can understand where Starson17 is coming from, there certainly are some "interesting" tags out there. Now if every single book was consistently tagged with those "interesting" tags (be it a character name, a location, or whatever takes your fancy) then maybe I would be tempted into doing as dwanthny says of using a separate genre column and cutting loose. However the OCD in me just detests the inconsistencies which would mean I could never use it to search. For instance say I wanted all books that were tagged "NZ" to indicate a NZ location. There could well be some books in my library which will have that tag. But I can guarantee that the majority will not. So I will be better off googling and then seeing if I have the books it finds. The same applies to any tag you don't set yourself, due to the lack of data scrubbing and control. Let alone all the "Sci-fi, SciFi, SyFy, Science Fiction..." variations which do my head in. But that's just me - you love 'em or hate 'em...